Uses of Radiation in Medicine Nuclear Chemistry and the Field of Medicine: A Union Shan Gupta‚ Yahoo! Contributor Network Jul 2‚ 2009 "Contribute content like this. Start Here." Applications of Radiation in the Field of Medicine Overview: With the discovery of radiation in the late 1800’s by Antoine Henri Becquerel‚ Marie Curie‚ and Pierre Curie‚ the powers of the atom were seemingly multiplied greatly. With this new power of the atom also came new uses for it‚ especially in the
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Adaptive Radiation An example of adaptive radiation occurring after a mass extinction is the extinction that killed off the dinosaurs. What caused this mass extinction was when a massive comet hit earth‚ off the Yucatan Peninsula. However‚ the mammals that survived this catastrophic event for the most part‚ survived because they could burrow in holes for shelter. Regardless‚ about 90% of all life on earth was destroyed. This led to an opportunity for the surviving plants and animals to disperse
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Goetz‚ the Clinical Coordinator for Radiation Therapy at CCBC‚ came to Eastern Technical High School to speak with the Allied Health students about the Radiation Therapy program and profession. Radiation Therapists (RT) use high power x-rays to treat tumors and keloids. Therapy only treats the site of disease contrary to chemotherapy‚ which goes directly into the bloodstream and kills cells all over the body. The oncologist writes a prescription for radiation based on the patient’s stage of cancer
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What You Need to Know About Radiation Therapy‚ Teen WHAT IS RADIATION THERAPY? Radiation therapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses high-energy waves of radiation to kill cancer cells or shrink tumors. These waves are like fast-moving X-rays. The rays are strong enough to destroy unhealthy cells. In radiation therapy‚ the radiation may be delivered from outside your body or from a source of radiation that is put inside your body. External radiation is usually used‚ though you may have both
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The Biological Effects of Radiation Whether the source of radiation is natural or man made‚ whether it is a small dose of radiation or a large dose‚ there will be some biological effects. Radiation causes ionizations of atoms‚ which will affect molecules‚ which may affect cells‚ which may affect tissues‚ and so on. Although most people tend to think of biological effects in terms of the effect of radiation on living cells‚ in actuality‚ ionizing radiation‚ by definition‚ interacts only with
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Nuclear Radiation There are many ways that the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still and the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" are similar. "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction story that deals with nuclear radiation and what the future world would be like if there was an atomic bomb. This short story is a good example of what could happen in the future. The Day the Earth Stood Still is a movie that also has the same genre‚ that it is science fiction. It helps
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Dianelys Garcia I would like to do a research on Radiation Therapy because that is what I am going to study next semester. I want to know things like jobs opportunities‚ further education‚ job duties‚ salary‚ and side effects. The fact that I got accepted into this program make me so happy‚ and I thanks God for this opportunity. I think that I can help other thru this career. Help people to feel better and help to treat cancer. A health issue that affects many people. Many of us had lost
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1. What concepts in the chapter are illustrated in this case? What ethical issues are raised by radiation technology? Basic concepts that are covered in this case are responsibility‚ accountability and liability. Ethical issues that are raised by radiation technology is when scientist is finding ways to use radiation therapy to destroy cancerous cells while making sure that healthy cells are not being harmed. An incident occurred where Mr. Jerome-Parks “experienced deafness and near-blindness‚
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Radiation Therapy Program Ever since I was a child‚ I wanted to become a nurse. My father was always in and out of the hospital as a result of diabetes. One of my earliest memories is of him telling me to become a nurse so that I can take care of him. He passed away when I was ten years old. As a result‚ I devoted my school career to pursuing a nursing degree‚ seeing as it was what my father wanted. That was until my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2007. I accompanied
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I have chosen to compare ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Bayonet Charge’ by Ted Hughes. Owen uses two powerful similes in Exposure. The first being in line 7‚ equating the harsh wind to ‘twitching agonies of men’ is a gruesome comparison that conveys a natural‚ merciless phenomenon in terms of vivid human suffering. In complete contrast with the reality of the poem’s setting‚ the touch of snow is equated with an image of lying under a blossom-laden tree in England. The home fires contain glowing
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